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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0053 MG3-406

John B. Bell (Louisville, KY, Tavern Keeper & notary public) N00001250 1812-12-23 1883-09-05 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, tavern keeper and notary public. Native of Ireland. Married to Mary Bell. Father of Hugh Bell, Sarah Bell, and Elizabeth Bell. Tavern keeper in Louisville in 1860. Employed James Boyle as a barkeeper in Louisville in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861.

Relationships Legal: Robert A. Watts (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 402. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007127, Louisville Deaths, p. 356. Find A Grave, "John Bell (1812-1883)," Memorial #156627642, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156627642 (accessed January 18, 2018). KYR-0001-017-0062. Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) N00002299 1818-08-04 1869-01-07 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Stanford, Kentucky, native. Married to Maria Antoinett Rousseau. Admitted to the bar in 1841. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana from 1844 to 1845. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War as a captain. Member of the the Senate of the State of Indiana from 1847 to 1849. Practiced law in Louisville after 1849. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Confirmed as a notary public for Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 5, 1861. Resigned his position in the Kentucky Legislature to raise troops for the Union. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 9, 1861, until promoted to brigadier general on October 5, 1861. Promoted to major general on October 22, 1862. Commanded a division in the Army of the Ohio and in the Army of the Cumberland until November 17, 1865. Elected as an unconditional Unionist to the 39th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: F. B. Russell (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: United States War Department Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 316. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 412-13. Find A Grave, "Maria Antoinette Dozier Rousseau (1826-1898)," Memorial #49305630, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49305630 (accessed June 28, 2021). Jack DeBerry, "Lovell Harrison Rousseau" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 783. Joseph G. Dawson, General Lovell H. Rousseau and Louisiana Reconstruction Louisiana History 20 (Fall 1979), 373-91. KYR-0001-017-0062. Robert A. Watts (Jefferson County, Kentucky) N00002300 1824? 1896-03-06 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, provisions dealer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret A. Watts. Father of Jane Watts. Provisions dealer in Louisville in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861.

Relationships Legal: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 141. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007129, Louisville Deaths, p. 132. KYR-0001-017-0062. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 1861-01-22 Note English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Jno. B. Bell ApdJany 22. 1861

L. H. Rousseau

Rob. A. Watts Jany 22d 1861